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Adrian Wilson, 29, Wimbledon umpire. Married to Sarah with one daughter, Eleanor, six months.

7am: Wake, toast for breakfast, get myself ready and into the right mindset for a match. I stay in a house with several other umpires, ten minutes’ walk from the Wimbledon grounds. I get there by 10.30am, walking past the queues, where the buzz is already building.

10pm-5pm: The times of matches vary: I do two matches a day on one designated court. If one starts at 12 noon it might run until 5pm, or it might be just 35 minutes, in which case there’s a